Ami Burns – Can’t see myself not living in Gosport

So I’ve, Marine Engineer training is at HMS Sultan, which is here, so I’ve trained here all of my career, for 20 years I’ve trained. I’ve been in and out. People only, we only see HMS Sultan and you assume that there’s not much else to Gosport and then probably about ten years ago I moved here permanently and bought a house, you know and I got to experience all that Gosport has to offer and, you know, parts of Gosport have really come on and the way that they’ve started to really improve the heritage, I love the Heritage Walk.

I like to go and do that on the seafront, follow the chain-link path, from the Submarine Museum all the way round to the Explosion Museum and then across over onto the Dockyard. I do that with family and friends when they come down, or if I’m just after, you know, catching my 10,000 steps.

I’ve been down here and I’ve been into the SETT before it shut down but unfortunately I didn’t get to do a full pressurised run but I did get to do the SETT.

I now consider Gosport my home and even when I move to Faslane in August I will keep my house here and treat it like an Airbnb, where I get to come home, you know, once a month or whatever. I probably will never leave, I love it, I really do.

The community’s great, and people assume that the community would be a significant Naval community and actually it really isn’t, it’s just the people, the people are lovely, there’s some really good Pubs that play really good live music, there’s some great Restaurants and we’re now improving the Restaurants, there’s some good ones that have opened up, Haslar Marina, Clarence Yard, you know, the Powder Monkey Brewery, there’s, you can see the investment and it’s, the sea, I love the sea.

You know, I swim in the sea, I do open water swimming, you know, it’s wonderful to do any kind of exercise, you know, all of the old railway track, I don’t know if you know about the railway track that runs up through and then The Eclipse, you know The Eclipse is fantastic, the bus means that we can now get the bus to Fareham in minutes few.

There’s investment in the roads now so you can get in and out quicker, so Gosport really is improving the longer I stay here and my best friend lives about 100 yards round the corner and she’s in the Navy as well but, and that helps, you know.